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6/06/2011

Bom Bon Cake

Well for monday decorating class I had to bring a recipe for the bon bon cake, wich I have never try before. Let me tell yOu it ROCKS !!!

I used this batter for the cake and some baby cupcakes (way too tired to take the pic)
Well , below it all I used for both cake and decoration.

Bom bOn cake

Ingredients:

5 cups of AP flour

1 oz of salt

1/2 of baking powder

13 oz of butter

21 oz of sugar

10 oz of sugar

6 eggs

12 oz of white chocolate

13 oz of milk

12 oz of chopped nuts

3 oz of honey

12 oz of dulce de leche

Directions:

Warm milk with 3 oz of white chocolate, just until melted, let it cool and set aside.

Combine dry ingridients

Cream butter and sugar until creamy and fluffy

Add eggs one by one

Combine dulce de leche and honey

Incorporate with butter and mix a little

Star mixing alternating dry ingredients with milk.

Incorporate the rest of the white cholate and chopped nuts.

Bake at 350F for about an hour (It was a large cake)

Let it cool

Swiss Meringue

6 egg whites

13 oz of sugar

1 tsp of vanilla (optional)

Directions:

Heat egg whites and sugar watching it very closely not to coagulate. Heat just until sugar is dissolved.

Add vanilla

Beat until stiff peeks form.

Royal Icing:

1 egg whites

2 cups sifted confectioners' sugar

1/2 teaspoon lemon extract

Beat egg whites in clean, large bowl with mixer at high speed until foamy (use only grade A clean, uncracked eggs). Gradually add sugar and lemon extract. Beat at high speed until thickened. NOTE: When dry, Royal Icing is very hard and resistant to damage that can occur during shipping/handling.